Judaism as Jazz: magical musical sermon by ” target=”_blank”>Stephen Wise Temple I’m lucky – I’ve got a lot of great Rabbis in my life – teachers, guides, friends.
(I should say – we are all lucky. We've all got great rabbis in our lives – great Cantors, too! And a great community…)
Here’s a teaching from one of my rabbis, Levi Weiman-Kelman, at Congregation Kol Haneshama in Jerusalem:
“Praying is like playing jazz. The more you pray, the richer your prayer becomes. You can pray alone, but the exciting things happen with fellow pray-ers. It helps to know and trust the others, too (although you learn a lot when you pray with new people)… Sometimes we all pray in harmony, other times we each pray at our own rhythm, at our own volume.”